The Harvard Law Record’s first podcast — All Rise! — has just launched its third episode: an interview with Harvard Law professor, Library director and internet law scholar Jonathan Zittrain. All Rise! is a longform interview podcast in which Harvard Law 1Ls Brady Bender and Pete Davis interview members of the Harvard community. You can […]

The Harvard Law Record’s first podcast — All Rise! — has just launched its second episode: an interview with Harvard Law professor, New Yorker writer and feminist legal scholar Jeannie Suk. All Rise! is a longform interview podcast in which Harvard Law 1Ls Brady Bender and Pete Davis interview members of the Harvard community. You can subscribe to All Rise! on iTunes here and listen […]

The Harvard Law Record is proud to announce the launch of its first podcast: All Rise! It’s a longform interview podcast in which Harvard Law 1Ls Brady Bender and Pete Davis interview members of the Harvard community. This week’s inaugural episode features Randall Kennedy, Harvard Law professor and author of multiple books on race and the law. […]

The first editorial published in the Harvard Law Record this year was entitled “We Owe Each Other a Moral Community.” This project — of doing the hard work of turning spaces into places, strangers into neighbors, and a professional training ground into a moral community — has seen better weeks than this one. It is strange to see […]

Harvard Law School’s official mission statement is: “To educate leaders who contribute to the advancement of justice and the well-being of society.” Last November, in a letter to Dean Martha Minow, I attempted to account for why it is the case that for every Harvard Law School graduate in 2014 who pursued work designed – […]

It is often said that the purpose of Harvard Law School’s 1L curriculum is to prepare each student to “think like a lawyer.” It would be much more accurate to say that the present curriculum aims to prepare each student to think like an attorney. The distinction is rarely articulated to students: an attorney is […]

In his final State of the Union address, President Barack Obama (JD ‘91) reminded each American that “our collective future depends on your willingness to uphold your obligations as a citizen.” It echoes Harvard Law School’s mission statement, which is to “educate leaders who contribute to the advancement of justice and well-being of society.” Unfortunately, […]

Dear Harvard Law School Class of 2018, Harvard Law School’s stated mission is “to educate leaders who contribute to the advancement of justice and well being of society.” Every January, when the sun sets early and corporate interest law firms flock to campus to wine and dine us, that mission can fade to the background. […]

Dear Dean Minow, When Professor Cass Sunstein returned to campus after his tenure in the Obama administration, you called him one of the top legal minds at work today, explaining to The Crimson that our Law School community was fortunate to welcome back a scholar with a “passion for figuring out what works, what doesn’t, […]

A few years ago, Josh Lyman spoke at Harvard to a packed room of starstruck student politicos. It wasn’t the real Josh Lyman, of course, because he isn’t real: he was the fictional Deputy Chief of Staff played by Bradley Whitford on the Aaron Sorkin television drama, The West Wing. It wasn’t Bradley Whitford either, […]